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President Obama Submits His First Budget to Congress (video)
youtube.com - 2/27/2009
President Obama Submits His First Budget to Congress (video)
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On Thursday, February 26th, President Obama submitted his first budget to Congress, making the case for the vital investments that will lay the foundation fo...
WHAT OBAMA'S BUDGET DOES -- AND DOESN'T -- SAY.
prospect.org - 2/22/2009
WHAT OBAMA'S BUDGET DOES -- AND DOESN'T -- SAY.
— prospect.org — The key agenda item in the budget is health care. That's what will dominate the week's message... and Obama's primetime speech. So what will the budget say? Or, as importantly, what won't it say? Health care will be financed. The two big revenue ... (more) WHAT OBAMA'S BUDGET DOES -- AND DOESN'T -- SAY.

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robertreich.blogspot.com - 2/26/2009
Finally a Progressive Budget
— robertreich.blogspot.com — President Obama’s new budget is, well, audacious -- not just because it includes several big, audacious initiatives... (universally affordable health care, and a cap-and-trade system for coping with global warming, for starters) but also because it ... (more) Finally a Progressive Budget

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News:  Plouffe: Budget a reflection of voters' priorities

Top of the Ticket:  How Obama's team gets his messages out while you're not looking

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Plouffe: Budget a reflection of voters' priorities
News — Plouffe: Budget a reflection of voters' priorities Obama for America campaign manager David Plouffe sought to mobilize campaign supporters in favor of the budget introduced yesterday, emailing supporters asking them to support the plan. "This budget isn't just a reflection of President Obama's priorities. It's a reflection of yours," Plouffe wrote in his email. Plouffe asked for help from supporters, adding: "In the coming weeks, we'll be asking you to talk directly to people in your community, to build momentum and demonstrate the broad support President Obama has for this new direction." The email included a video of Obama introducing his budget for the fiscal year 2010, seen ...

How Obama's team gets his messages out while you're not looking
Top of the Ticket — Here's how President Obama's team is using his vast donor e-mailing list to circumscribe any intermediaries and get his pure political message out to millions of supporters to marshal support for whatever he wants, in this case support for his budget: They send out an e-mail to an estimated 12 million or 13 million names with a short text message from David Plouffe, the political campaign's manager and now the campaign manager for "Obama for America." He says something like: "With this budget, President Obama is asking Washington to do something it rarely does -- look beyond the next election and take the ...

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